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Internal Darkness
Chapter VII
Otto's POV
Man... What is this place? It smells like my gym socks... Or Nova's cooking, can't tell... Ow... My head hurts... I looked around the rusty weird cage I was in. Looked to me left, saw lots of weapons of torture, looked to my right and saw Chiro. Hmm... There's something weird about this- HEY IT'S CHIRO!
"HI CHIRO!"
Chiro's POV
I groaned and scratched my head. What a weird dream... Yawning, I looked around for any minions. That's funny... His lair is always crowded with his minions... I shackily, stood up, trying to remember what happened in the last few hours...
Wait... I'm still free!
I darted to a hallway when suddenly I perked up to a voice...
"HEY CHIRO!"
I spun around and nearly fell when I saw him. A green robotic monkey? He was waving his arms around like a maniac. But what is he doing here? I thought of the other monkeys I encountered. They knew me, and this one knows me too. Maybe he can help me...
A walked, shakily toward his cage. I was't so used to walking yet. When I finally got near him, an army of Skeleton-like soldiers appeared out of nowhere. I was powerless to defend myself. I slowly stepped backwards as the things appraoched us. That's when I heard this buzzing noise.
I looked at the monkey behind me to see that his hands were like chainsaws and that he had sawed right through the metal!
But how...?
"C'mon Chiro! We can take these formless down just like we used to! Remember?"
He smiled as I tried to figure out what he meant. What was he talking about! Suddenly he leaped out of the cage, with a really weird battle cry. And when I mean weird, I meant stupid weird.
"SCRITCH SCRATCH DOOM THROWER!"
I watched in amazement as the green monkey sliced the "formless" ,as he called them, into goop. But how? Robot monkey... Figures.
Nova's POV
I rushed to the scene as soon as Gibson confirmed that Sparky was awake. I was right next to him almost all night! I hope Brain Strain didn't tell him that...
Blushing, I skidded across the floor to the room Sprx was in. I nearly pounced him!
"Sprx! You're okay! I was so worried!"
He wasn't saying any wisecracks or anything... I looked up at his face.
"...Sprx?"
He just smiled, and it looked as if he ewre about to say something when Antauri rushed into the room.
"We have a lock on Otto's tracker, Monkeys Mobilize!"
We all rushed to the exit. Sprx tried to go with us but Gibson said that his injuries were too great. So he had to stay and wait. But right now I had only one thought on my mind. I'm not going to lose another HyperForce member. Not now, not ever again.
Otto's POV
Man, Chiro's sure acting strange. Well, I at least thought he'd know my name. I wonder what happened that made him forget... We walked along the cave walls in silence. I shivered, I hate silence!
"Hey, Chiro... What happened to ya?"
Chiro looked surprised.
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"Ya know, what made you vanish and stuff. Where were you anyway?"
"In a place where you never wanna be..." I heard him whisper to himself.
"What was that?"
"No! No, it's nothing, really! Just talking to myself again..."
"No Chiro, it's not nothing. I should know, Gibson says stuff like that all the time!"
"Gib-son? Who's he?"
"He's the smart guy on the team! Always using these really big words... You remember when you blew up his old science project?"
"Uhhh..."
FlashBack
Chiro was tinkering with some of Gibson's equipment... Again. Last time he nearly blew his ear off, but this time he was going to be more "careful", meaning he was going to tinker with much more stuff.
"Oooo... What's thi-"
He couldn't even finish his sentence in time when the book set fire and some other things together.
"Oops..."
"Chiro what are you-... CHIIIROOO!"
Gibson was like a charging rhinoceros, ready to stirke the awaiting boy.
"No need to get feisty now Gibson... It was ju-AHHHHHHHHH!"
Antauri's POV
We were heading towards a long, narrow cave going straight down. Otto's signal was getting stronger by the second. I nodded to the team as we activated our hoverpacks to get down the cave.
"Gibson, how many kilometers to the source?"
"57.5 and counting. This is odd, I'm picking up two other signals. Could it be possibly? But that's not logical, I mean, this must be a malfunction of some sort..."
"No Gibson, it's Chiro. I told ya so!"
Sprx was getting his jokerman side back, Gibson was more focused, and Nova was getting much braver by the passing moments... The event of Chiro coming back has affected us all, but the miracle is not over yet. Not until we find Chiro.
"Whatchya thinkin' 'bout Antauri?"
"It's nothing Nova. What matters now is to get to the signal as quickly as possible."
She simply nodded as we descended to the murky place below. Whatever's waiting down there, is waiting for us. Good or Evil.